Guild Wars 2

Don’t celestial recipes need ecto even though they use account bound mats? I haven’t spent my cqc yet.

Mist/vapor form is our “stealth” except we can’t be hit the way any other class that stealths can be. I’d prefer mist over stealth any day.

You completely ignore ascended armor and 400-500 crafting. I highly doubt those recipes will not require many stacks of ecto.

These patch notes read to me like responses to complaint threads ove the last couple of weeks/months. I am more excited that they used suggestions that players made than the actual changes.

I was not expecting such a substantial balance patch so soon, Anet is really putting in the effort you gotta give them that. It may not be directly ele heavy but there is surely lots that will affect us here.

wolfie.7296:

Solo.9027:

Vol.5241:

It’s a gold sink.

Only if you’re bad.

Please state your class and your playstyle. eg. if you turn tail while the front line dies at every opportunity and use others as shields for own advancement.

Don’t hate the player, hate the game.

Omnitek.3876:

Solo.9027:

Esplen.3940:

You can always do the 30 min/key Human grind.

You’d work 30 minutes for a dollar?

Is this game considered work for you?

Not unless you count that I’m on these forums while at my job.

Vol.5241:

It’s a gold sink.

Only if you’re bad.

Esplen.3940:

You can always do the 30 min/key Human grind.

You’d work 30 minutes for a dollar?

New skills is probably not the best thing to wish for based on their implementation of glyph stunbreak and cleansing fire/lightning flash. If they made new worthwhile traits at least it wouldnt affect existing ones negatively(see: fresh air and new grounded)

Potential new traits:
Heat Exhaustion – drain endurance on critical(maybe this can be ele’s torment)
Benumb – weakness on chill
Tremor – knockdown on immobilize
Thunderstruck – blind on critical

Bismuth.3165:

I also forgot to mention about the “I know how to get there,”, there’s only one road, we’re not going to jump into the lava, and my argument of why don’t they just stab crea is totally valid, they could’ve made the path a striking back/revenge kind of thing.

Have you ever let her die? The dungeon can continue without her but Ferrah cries a little and you dont get that chest before the rocks.

I just open them because I don’t need that potential steady money and I’ve already made the one item that would necessitate saving them(bifrost). I actually pulled an abyss from some mushrooms I harvested on a lowbie once from an immediate opening whereas I once saved 45 dyes and got only 1 rare illumination when I opened them all at once. With luck and regular play I get about 2-3 in a day which serve as my daily gamble since I’m not forging as often anymore.

cheshirefox.7026:

Sisyphus
cuz constantly maxing out new builds and getting mediocre results is starting to feel like this

I wanted that name for my warrior but I settled for ‘Absurd Hero’.

sonicwylde.2906:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJArYhMmebux2QlEABFCgw4BIdQiogFlCzA-jwyAYrASQAJRAZPl1EogYxtIasqGM9JRUtnHzdII7SSKA-e was something I was thinking about, with the gear that I have/will have

No point in doing signet/auras if you don’t proc fury/swiftness and/or protection on aura use.

Does’t glyph of renewal have a teleport-ally built in? There’s your precedent right there. Anet, make it so.

Do condition duration sigils even stack?

Named mine Matriculated because the tutorial called it a scholar class and because since he was sylvari he sort of looked like the characters from the Animatrix: http://www.virtualworldlets.net/Resources/Hosted/Resource.php?Name=AnimatrixMatriculated

If I was to go with a condition build for fun it would be d/f with apoth everywhere and signets with fire/earth investment. Offhand dagger has churning earth but thats almost negligible unless you run stability and blink to make sure it lands. Otherwise, listen to Neko.

Don’t forget the changes to aura boons. They halved the boon duration we got from shocking aura and gave frost aura some damage mitigation. Relative buff to s/d and nerf to d/d.

I secretly like that 0/10/0/30/30 d/d has gotten constant nerfs as it limits bandwagoners from just being able to pick up the class and spam random buttons to win. I miss the days when people thought this was a hard class to play. Now at least we’re gaining a reputation as the glassiest cannons but a cannon no less.

If you just want to play with a new class’s skills theres always heart of the mists at level 2 for free. Thats how I decided not to make an asura thief because of the rediculous sword animation.

I think they chose 20 because thats when you have all 3 utility slots unlocked, though I’m not sure it grants any skill points.

My 5th/last slot will probably be a mesmer or guard and I still havent leveled asura yet. I’m actually already messing around with a thief and necro but both are too high already to use the boost.
I wish it was just a free 20 skill points or any 20 levels, but whatever it was free. If they update it and put it on sale for gems I’d buy many. Time saved >>> $.

John Smith.4610:

Rebort.6295:

Increasing supply to lower the price ignores half of the supply/demand equation. What happens when the increased supply creates more demand?

This is very astute. All evidence we have shows that doubling the precursor drop rate would actually increase the price, not decrease it. The shape of the curve looks something like this (obviously ignoring any actual numbers on the graph).
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28x+%2B+2x%5E2+%2B+x%5E3%2Bx%5E4+%2B+x%5E5%29+*-1

This is a MMO with heavy emphasis on cosmetics. You can safely assume demand to be infinite.

I hope they proliferate the ideas behind fresh air to the other elements. And yes, I’m excited for the future.

The vitality from valkyre’s is more for a condition damage defense than direct damage mitigation. You can continue bursting through burns and bleeds a little bit longer before having to activate ether renewal or other cleanse.

Neither of these has toughness, you maybe thinking of cavalier(power/tough/crit).

I regularly carry a full set of zerk, valk, and soldier for different situations.

This blog post happening on 5k chest day has me worried that the chest might be a letdown and they wanted us to have something positive to think about afterwards.

Hopefully there is an option to ascend existing exotic gear.

If we get legendary trinkets I want to be able to see it dangle from my neck.

I think this type of thing happens when the stock of low priced yet slower moving items gets rapidly depleted and then when some casual goes to list a fresh drop they just list it at whatever the new lowest(now high) price is and since its a slow mover that drops infrequently, the price sticks. The only people buying crap stat exotics with “grawl slaying” sigils are precursor chasers and they tend to buy in bulk, sometimes the dumb ones don’t place buy orders. People who are actually lv74 use rares at best.

What good is crit chance to your build if you have no crit damage?

LordByron.8369:

So i m not answering unless you talk ONLY of the game.
Thank you

Constructive criticism is a good thing, what you do is systematically kitten on every update they release. I’m not attacking you, I’m telling you people(anet included) will ignore your opinion if you keep to that trend.

LordByron.8369:

The ability to switch stats at will its not something with low impact on the game.
just think how some professions can change from roaming to siege to zerg to defence with it in www.

Do you hear yourself? You’re complaining that we will be able to change stats on a legendary weapon. We could always do that on the fly if we carried alternate exotic weapons. Alternate exotics of every iteration of every stat is still cheaper than any one legendary.

You really should pick your battles more wisely than troll every post on the forums, its counterproductive and people eventually tune you out.

VOLKON.1290:

Farming Flats.5370:

well , good news .. but if they want to remove MF gear ..

for exemple :
im very curious on how they will fix my Ascended Amulet with a 20% MF infusion .. they just can’t remove it just like that

It could be as simply as giving you a means to trade in the amulet for a different ascended one, or converting the existing ones to something different.

Or it could apply that bonus to all your characters..

Lots of good news here.

My goal posts will have to change now from collecting skins to collecting mats again since crafting ascended is happening. Also, the change to legendary stats means all my old exotic alt weapons are useless and I should have just gone for another legendary. On the brightside precursors will be more attainable, though I bet gold will be harder to come by as well.

We’ll have to wait and see.

I just wish I could find a male light armor top that didnt go over the forearms covering the only part that glows. The only one I can see working is arah’s but I havent done dungeons in months.

Hellfire pales in comparison, its only marginally better than most CoF parts.

If fiery greatsword gets nerfed it will be to remove the mobility aspect. I could see them halfing #3’s distance saying it was a bug.

Double click the jewel from the hero panel and then click the ring, don’t drag and drop.

Svetli.4276:

there are ppl with 10 000 ap when the new rewards were announced we are the idiots for not doing every single kitten in this game : )
they score big time

We’ll see exactly how big on thursday night when people get their 5k chests.

Facepunch.5710:

Well, here she is!

Congrats.

Whenever I see the greatsword legendaries I think of this: Ribbon dancer

Waypointing is already free in WvW.

Dand.8231:

Maybe…. Conjure Weapon could be condensed into one elite skill, which summons a weapon in your hand and on the ground, based on attunement at the time? And the weapon (only the one in your hand) switches to match the attunment along with you?

That would be amazing, but there are two fire conjures both with their own merits.

A more simple/likely solution would be to let us pick up our second conjure while holding the first still and double the charges/time that it is active the way duration boons work. Or maybe make conjures a chain skill that needs to be activated twice to summon a second for an ally to use.

I’m surprised noone has made a fuss that they essentially gave away an item that takes the place of lodestones for a couple of legendary weapon recipes. Especially after handing out hundreds of badges of honor.

TGSlasher.1458:

I’m sure the OP said he is only 21 … so that would be a 10 0 10 0 0 build he was referring to making.

BTW, I absolutely hate buildcraft.
Into the mists or gw2skills is much easier to read

trait points unlock at level 11

Vol.5241:

And we speculated that they would bring back the old dungeons.

I think people are gonna vote Evon just for the nostalgia.

I never got into gw1 much but if they remade it entirely with gw2’s engine and combat i’d buy it just to see the backstory to the world of gw2.

Staff and glyph aoe is too random with long cooldowns. d/d is better controlled/reliable aoe, although riskier. I prefer s/d right now since it has superior single target burst but also moderate aoe.

IMO this game doesnt really have many opportunities to just nuke an area over and over since mobs and players are so mobile. I find it faster to kill single targets than to hope random falling fireballs will kill(or even hit at all) every target in an area. Plus it enhances my fun to pick out the weakest targets to exploit.

A full set of armor is 30 cqc.

That 30 cqc is 3 stacks of quartz(25 quartz=1 cqc), which currently sells for a little over a gold per stack and maybe less as the event backlog grows. The gossamer for my exalted set sells for around 60s, plus say 3.5g if I bought the quartz entirely ends up with a full set of exotic armor for a little over 4g and a month of patience.

Considering the cost to level tailoring 0-400 is about 8.5g, making a celestial set is going to be cheaper than buying most any other crafted set available, plus its got every stat.

Time gating sucks but not needing T6 balances it out.

Thanks for this, I got all three for 14g via buy orders tonight. If I read this tomorrow I would have wasted my scraps on only 1, luckily I only have ~110 from just open world drops. Hopefully I can get enough for a helm by the end of it all or if I get a golden ticket i’ll just buy a bunch of recipe boxes.

Arguably, Anet wants fewer pve’ers just zerging for tokens since they’re giving out so many badges just for having achievement points.

My problem with the glyph is that it has its own (very low)chance to proc independent of my own high crit chance. It works against my build whereas signet of air/arcane shield enhance it.

If I suddenly had 800g i’d probably buy character slots and craft level some alts. If I didn’t already have my legendary it’d take a huge chunk out of that(possibly all of the buyable stuff with some luck).

My main currently carries 4 alternate armor sets, a couple trinket sets, and several weapons of each stat type or just different sigils.

I can’t tell you how to have fun but you seem to be missing the point of being rich.

You’re “fed up” because you aren’t enjoying spending all that gold.